Trauma Movies

West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally...

A week before her wedding, a mild-mannered kindergarten teacher is the victim of a hit and run. In the wake of the accident, she discovers to her...

A man's past trauma resurfaces due to the disturbance caused by a young child.

Voices in Wartime is a 2004 documentary that explores the human experience of war through poetry. Combining interviews with soldiers, journalists,...

Over the course of a single harrowing night, May, a pregnant woman trapped in a cycle of addiction, psychosis, and domestic violence goes into labor....

Emmett enters into a nightmarish game of therapy with his wife Anya, who has inexplicably taken on the persona of his estranged and recently-deceased...

On Christmas Eve, while families celebrate together, Pedro, a night security guard haunted by loneliness and memories of a shattered past, works his...

A man is under the illusion he is a wanted war criminal.

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

A young idealist has his faith in his own character and his ideals tested after a traumatic experience.

An ensemble film about four everyday people: a store manager, a security guard, a fire fighter and a clerk who struggle in the aftermath of trauma.

In total despair, Anja is about to throw herself from a bridge. At that very moment, Henry drives past in his car. Thinking she's a prostitute, he...

At her mother's rambling behest, Josie enlists best friend and unofficial chauffeur Stanley, to search for clues after her sister, Andrea,...

Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to...

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul and Paulette’s...

A young man recently released from prison attempts to rebuild his life after the death of his mother.

When their troubled brother’s car is found at the bottom of a lake, three siblings are forced back to their family home to bury the past, but...

Having enabled a loss that now torments her, a woman enters an adult store in search of redemption. Adapted from a short story by Christos Tsiolkas.

A girl seeks help and guidance from a robot monster to cope with the bullies at school and her father's new girlfriend.

The story of the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.